What do you guys read?

[Smossy]

So I'm going on a 4 day solo hunt.  I usually don't hike alone for more then a day or two.  Not by choice anyways.  I will be this time. 

I'd like to take something to read a bit, especially if I can't sleep.  I'm always feeling guilty I don't read my Bible enough.  I thought about taking it.  But that's a lot of weight.  Those small Gideon bible's are hard for me to read. 

Maybe I'll print out a dozen pages of my bible to take.  Anybody else take something to read in the backcountry?  Any suggested chapters?

Find a survival guide to take along. It will fill you full of potentially useful / life saving information. Try to memorize as much as possible.

[ghosthunter]

If you cannot sleep you are not hunting hard enough


I like to take Esquire or Star and just read the headlines. Like

I Mothered A UFO baby.

[RadSav]

If you cannot sleep you are not hunting hard enough

I am a serious insomniac at home.  But get me in the back country and for some reason staying awake is my biggest problem.  Had some hikers wake me up in the Eagle Caps years ago.  "Dude.  We thought you were dead!"

[Duffer]

LOL! 

[hillbilli]

Itend to teke paperbacks.. westerns, spynovels, whatever I find on the used paperback rack that I think looks interesting, I dotn seem to read that much on a trip though.. but its nice to have it. I meditate more this time of year than any other.

[3nails]

So I'm going on a 4 day solo hunt.  I usually don't hike alone for more then a day or two.  Not by choice anyways.  I will be this time. 

I'd like to take something to read a bit, especially if I can't sleep.  I'm always feeling guilty I don't read my Bible enough.  I thought about taking it.  But that's a lot of weight.  Those small Gideon bible's are hard for me to read. 

Maybe I'll print out a dozen pages of my bible to take.  Anybody else take something to read in the backcountry?  Any suggested chapters?

Find a survival guide to take along. It will fill you full of potentially useful / life saving information. Try to memorize as much as possible.

You just described the bible!

[MC37493]

Louis L'Amour

[huntnphool]

Some of the posts on these sites would suggest that a large number of people have never read the regs, not necessarily pointing at you, but you might try reading those while fighting to get some sleep, its sure to do the trick.

I find the commissioners comments particularly useful, doubling as a sedative and mountain money all in one handy little magazine.

[ChadH]

I always take my Bible on my iPod (or phone), and a small book. The last trip I took "The Mountian Man". If you have a buddy, you can share and just tear it in half (or whatever) and keep giving the other guy pages... it's kind of fun actually. You pack it in, he ends up packing it out (or big pieces of it).

[blacktailcody]

The Bible and Robert Service. 3 Nails knows where it's at.

 

[kerrdog]

Victoria's Secret Catalogue.  Interesting articles.

[coachcw]

I usually just look at pics , but jack O'Conner's big game hunts is a classic .

[savagehunter]

i read my map

[Jonathan_S]

A lot of John Maxwell, Napoleon Hill, Dale Carnegie, etc.

Aside from self-improvement, I really enjoy James Michener books, "Chesapeake", "The Source", "Caravans" for a few

I just like reading more in-depth books when I'm out in the wild yonder.  I enjoy feeling like a tiny little speck out there and reading those books helps.

[stevemiller]

I've been conversing with a few of our members here and another read other than the bible that i really enjoy is my old and new reloading books,there are a lot of great stories in them especially the older ones.